Salt Lake Telegram | 1912-07-11 | Page 6 | Local White Slaver Pardoned by President on Strength of Poem

Local White Slaver aver Pardoned by President i on OD Strength of Poem r I WASHINGTON July 11 A A pris Pris- mothers mother's a poem woven about the desolation of her child eo so touched President Tafts Taft's s heart that ho today commuted to expire at once the five an and o one half y years years' ars' ars sentence of May Mav E. E Brown convicted con at Salt Lake City Tune Juno 20 20 1911 of violating the w slave slave law The trial jud judge fudge c and United States attorney indorsed tho the oma 5 for ele clemency the he firs fir first t trant granted rant d in a white slave case S The May ra Brown Drown case is 15 well known to Salt Lake citizens It was up for tri trial l' l on on Juno June 20 20 1911 The rhe woman w was h found guilty of abducting Cora Frohm the tho only daughter of a widow and who was iras but 16 years old ing her ber to leave ave herr her place of work here and and go o to Pocatello Ida on pr promise of something better botter At alt Pocatello the tho young girl irl was wu not given the promised position but found herself in the lair law of May Brown and Howard Gould the latter a a. white slaver who wh was given a a. t term rm of seven and ami one half years ears in Leavenworth rl p penitentiary for this and similar acts